[Matrixbeast]

I know there was a long gap between series, but wow, I was surprised the one area that Toei and KR would know how to handle best, the fighting, was where the ball was dropped. It was surprisingly dull.
Hopefully once he gets more forms the choreography and editing will be improved.

[ElConvoy]

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Originally Posted by Matrixbeast

I know there was a long gap between series, but wow, I was surprised the one area that Toei and KR would know how to handle best, the fighting, was where the ball was dropped. It was surprisingly dull.
Hopefully once he gets more forms the choreography and editing will be improved.

The way I understood it from the research I did on the show over the years was that the team wasnt really interested in doing action scenes for Kuuga. The fights get better over time but are never as highly choreographed as they are in the showa or later heisei series.

Kuuga was meant to be a drama series and a horror series first. The action aspect was really low on the teams list of priorities.

[XW1n5t0nX]

That sort of carries over to Agito as well, though not as much since there is a bit more action in Agito.

[ElConvoy]

And the budget for Kuuga was pretty low for that time period. The Suit actor who played Kuuga, Kenji Tominaga was a pretty unknown guy who didnt have much experience when he was hired to do Kuuga. Something that reflects the small budget they had to work with.

[XW1n5t0nX]

Personally I like the slower fights. Don't get me wrong I love the insanity we see later on, but I love how Godai fights more methodical and cerebral. Plus because he's always gaining new powers and learning about Kuuga in general it makes it fun to watch the fights get quicker the more he learns about the powers.

[Matrixbeast]

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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

The way I understood it from the research I did on the show over the years was that the team wasnt really interested in doing action scenes for Kuuga. The fights get better over time but are never as highly choreographed as they are in the showa or later heisei series.

Kuuga was meant to be a drama series and a horror series first. The action aspect was really low on the teams list of priorities.

I'm not expecting flips and break dancing while fighting. I'm just expecting a little more than mild grappling with a few punches, is all. I am glad they improve some, though.

I can understand them wanting the series to be more focused on the story. I just wish they cared that the story was a part of an action series.

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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

And the budget for Kuuga was pretty low for that time period. The Suit actor who played Kuuga, Kenji Tominaga was a pretty unknown guy who didnt have much experience when he was hired to do Kuuga. Something that reflects the small budget they had to work with.

It wouldn't surprise me that the budget was low, hence why I didn't comment on some of the special effects, but now it's making me wonder how low it was.

[ElConvoy]

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I'm not expecting flips and break dancing while fighting. I'm just expecting a little more than mild grappling with a few punches, is all. I am glad they improve some, though.

I can understand them wanting the series to be more focused on the story. I just wish they cared that the story was a part of an action series.



It wouldn't surprise me that the budget was low, hence why I didn't comment on some of the special effects, but now it's making me wonder how low it was.

A big part of the way they structured Kuuga is that they tried to make it as realistic as they could make a show about a karate bugman fighting monsters. Hence why they relatively untrained Godai becomes a more competent fighter as the show progresses. A really cool part about Kuuga is that the characters travel in "real time". When Godai is in central tokyo and an attack happens outside the city the travel time is presented in a realistic way so if the drive to the crime scene would take him 3 hours in reality it takes him 3 hours in the show as well.

The budget was really low yeah. The whole show was a big gamble for Toei if audiences would still care about a Rider show. A heavily serialized Rider show compared to the more episodic formula the franchise presented in the past. Only through the giant success the show had they increased the budget for the following seasons.

[Matrixbeast]

I think the realism is a blessing and a curse. Yes, it does ground the fights and makes the scenes that are supposed to be jaw dropping have greater impact, but in doing so, it also slows the fighting to a crawl otherwise. Having never been a fan of wresting (Both real and WWE), watching fighters grab each others' shoulders then struggle for a bit just doesn't interest me. When punches and kicks are thrown, they have such little impact that it seems pointless.

The realism does work better for telling a story, making tense scenes actually feel like things are at stake, though.

Once I advance further, we'll see, though.

[Matrixbeast]

Alright, episode 2 is down.
The fighting did improve, but not by much. While there was a lot more punches and kicks thrown, they still didn't make them feel like there was much impact behind them, and the editing is still terrible (The fight went from middle of the night to mid day out of nowhere. Come on...)

As for the story at hand. I have no idea what is going on.

Anyway, detective is a jerk, but I don't have a problem with it. He's doing his job to the best of his ability, and some idiot civilian is interfering. He's not mean because he wants to be, but because he's in a high stress job that's gotten even harder. Yusuke has gained his resolve to fight properly, becoming his Mighty form in the process, to protect the smiles of everyone in the world.
The bat escaped, but the spider bites the dust.

[barnstenchfartface]

Episode 35 of the original Kamen Rider.

The worst crime Shocker ever committed was making all their monsters sound like fricking idiots.

Thank god Kitsubs' only gotten to episode 43 of this thing. I really don't think I could take another 50 episodes of this.